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Smart contracts explained

You might already follow Crypto Capital Ventures (CCV) on Twitter or YouTube. If not Dan summarises the Cardano move into the Goguen era of Smart Contracts. It’s a great summary and explanation of what’s coming. Recommended viewing if you are interested in understanding more.

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Cardano Updates

Alonzo Progress

A short update from Charles on progress towards Smart Contracts (spoiler- it’s on track), and some other snippets on Cardano Foundation, growth of the wider ecosystem, and Catalyst Funding. The window of opportunity for Cardano to take significant market share still remains before Ethereum switches to Proof of Stake and resolves longstanding performance issues. Fortunately…

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Cardano Developer Portal

News just in that the Developer Portal is live. This is a very positive development which will help new entrants to the ecosystem. As you might expect from a project that has grown and evolved very quickly over the last 2 years Cardano documentation is somewhat fragmented and in some places out of date. This…

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Musings

A billion users

A recent article in City A.M. covering the Cardano aspiration for a billion users within 10 years caught our eye. A billion users, that’s a big number right? At the moment Cardano has about 1 million users based on active wallet data. So to hit a billion over 10 years requires a Compound Annual Growth…

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Cardano Community

Cardano Foundation Strategy

Frederik Gregaard was recently appointed as CEO for the Cardano Foundation. You may already know that Cardano has a trinity structure: Cardano Foundation are the not for profit arm, responsible for long term governance and stewardship for the Cardano Ecosystem. IO Group (IOG, formerly IOHK), the development organisation, responsible for building the code and tools.…